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[–]MarkTwainiac 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Here is how the EA redefines sex.

"(4) SEX.—The term ‘sex’ includes—

“(A) a sex stereotype;

“(B) pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition;

“(C) sexual orientation or gender identity; and

“(D) sex characteristics, including intersex traits.

To make matters worse, the EA defines says that access to sex-specific facilities, programs and provisions should be based on "gender identity" rather than biological sex, and defines "gender identity" as follows:

“(2) GENDER IDENTITY.—The term ‘gender identity’ means the gender-related identity, appearance, mannerisms, or other gender-related characteristics of an individual, regardless of the individual’s designated sex at birth."

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5/text

This worrying language means that males like Blaire White, Contrapoints, Munroe Bergdorf, Gigi Gorgeous, Bruce Jenner, or even Ru Paul and his crew when dressed in full drag and acting out their fantasies would have more right to use female spaces, to participate in female sports and to obtain female services like gynecological care, female-only roommates in nursing homes and intimate hospital or home care from female-only aides and nurses than most of us bog-standard girls and women who do not have a "gender identity" and do not spend our lives performing femininity and conforming to regressive sex stereotypes through our "appearance, mannerisms or other gender-related characteristics."

Finally, though this whole bill is built around "gender identity" and the meaning of "gender identity" in turn is dependent on having a clear definition of what the hell "gender" means, nowhere in the EA is "gender" defined. The bill doesn't even attempt to define it!

The EA has to be one of the most poorly-written, confusing, confounding pieces of legislation ever written in the English language. Yet it sailed through the House, 236-173.